Protests Across the United States: No Blood for Oil, U.S. Out of Venezuela - Left Voice
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The Trump Administration bombed Venezuela, kidnapped its president, and announced the United States intends to “run the country” while opening its borders to American oil companies. People around the world rose up immediately to express their outrage.

Saturday morning, people in the United States woke up to the news that Trump had bombed Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, as well as sites in several other locations across the country. The Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife had been taken into U.S. custody to stand trial in New York. In a press conference around 11:30 am Eastern Time (4:30 pm GMT), Trump announced “We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.”

Even before the press conference, protests were quickly called in both major cities and smaller towns as the news broke — 105 protests in the United States registered with the ANSWER Coalition’s list for January 3 alone, with more scheduled for the following day.

Happening Now: Massive march in New York City protesting the U.S.’s imperialist war and illegal invasion of Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/glCjQ7u89P

— Power to the People ☭🕊 (@ProudSocialist) January 3, 2026

Los Angeles out here in the rain demanding an end to US imperialist aggression in Venezuela! pic.twitter.com/ZjXLMZxZ2e

— promise li (@promise__li) January 3, 2026

ANSWER Coalition, which is affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), appears to have organized most of the protests in the United States, although many other leftist groups, labor unions, and independents participated in them.

Left Voice members and correspondents reported from protests in New York City, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Toronto in Canada.

Left Voice member Tristan Taylor reports from Detroit where protesters turned out in freezing cold to oppose Trump’s attacks on Venezuela. We need to mobilize in direct solidarity with the working class and oppressed on Venezuela who have nothing to gain from U.S. intervention!

— Left Voice (@leftvoice.bsky.social) 2026-01-03T21:53:47.840Z

Our comrade reports from Toronto, Canada where protesters have joined the international mobilizations against U.S. attacks on Venezuela.Workers must unite across the Western Hemisphere and internationally, demanding Hands Off Venezuela! No New Monroe Doctrine！

— Left Voice (@leftvoice.bsky.social) 2026-01-03T22:28:16.774Z

In terms of labor movement participation, the AFL-CIO “condemned” Trump’s actions in Venezuela, echoing a post by the International Trade Union Confederation, and Chicago Teachers Union encouraged its members to attend the ANSWER Coalition protest in their city.

EMERGENCY PROTEST: NO WAR ON VENEZUELA. STOP THE BOMBINGS.

Join us in the streets to demand an end to U.S. aggression against Venezuela.

TODAY @ Federal Plaza – 5 PM pic.twitter.com/jjkLMAwFJv

— Chicago Teachers Union (@CTULocal1) January 3, 2026

The Professional Staff Congress, representing workers at the City University of New York, had passed a resolution two weeks ago denouncing U.S. military involvement in Venezuela, but has not so far made a new statement about the January 3 attacks.

From an anti-war protest at in Times Square, Left Voice writer and PSC CUNY member Olivia Wood calls on unions to denounce Trump’s war on Venezuela and mobilize their members in the streets to defeat these attacks.

— Left Voice (@leftvoice.bsky.social) 2026-01-03T21:20:59.372Z

“We want an end to forever wars –– we absolutely demand it!”

More than 1,000 demonstrators take the streets in Chicago to say that a war against Venezuela is not in our interests –– in fact, 70% of Americans REJECT it! Hands off Venezuela! pic.twitter.com/0U1JRKyIOW

— ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) January 3, 2026

Considering Trump’s plans to “run” Venezuela for the time being and allow oil companies to plunder the country’s natural resources, this is only the beginning of the need to mobilize against this renewed and escalating era of U.S. imperialism in Venezuela. The January 3 protests were widespread, but relatively small — a truly powerful anti-war movement in the United States would unite the struggles against the genocide in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, anti-immigration policies, and the still-developing nature of the situation in Venezuela in a powerful, coordinated repudiation of imperialism and militarization. It requires the coordinated and sustained actions of workers, young people, and the Left united against the U.S. war machine.

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